Odyssey of a child survivor: from Latvia to America through the camps

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George Schwab wrote an outstanding memoir about the Holocaust. What makes them special is that they reflect how a teenager who grew up in a very wealthy family - with a governess, playing tennis, furniture and carpets from the royal palace, dining in a pavilion serving cocoa canapes - suffered the same fate as and Jews from the poorest shtetls. Schwab tells his woeful tale without a shred of self-pity, yet his detailed and very vivid account of cattle cars, slave labor, suicide marches, loss of loved ones in the gas chambers, and Nazi violence is heartbreaking. The fact that Schwab, who was a homeless child for some time after the war, became a highly respected professor of history and an expert on foreign policy, makes his resilience, courage and courage all the more impressive. —Joseph Berger, former reporter and editor for The New York Times George Schwab's gripping memoir of an amazing life, from a quiet pre-war childhood in Latvia, through the horrors and tragedies of the Holocaust, culminating in a remarkable academic achievement and a career in international politics, is presented to the reader. The beautifully heartfelt book, Child Survivor Odyssey, shows us a brave and conscientious man who radiates pride in being a Jew and firmly refuses to bow his head to Nazi persecutors, Latvian collaborators and American university leaders. — Menachem Z. Rosenzaft, World Jewish Congress General Counsel, Associate Professor of Law at Cornell University Law School, Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School “A Child Survivor Odyssey. From Latvia to America through the camps” by George Schwab, it is not in vain that it bears such a name. The author effortlessly moves from the personal to the professional and back, conveying not only the merits and demerits of the places he visited and the people he met, but also a passion for life that only those who prematurely experienced its fragility can understand. The Odyssey is an amazing book by an amazing person, an intelligent book by an intelligent person, a serious book by a serious person, but at the same time a fun book by a fun person. Child Survivor Odyssey is a memoir we should all read. — Michael Berenbaum, Professor of Jewish Studies at the American Hebrew University

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Publication language: Russian

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